How to Increase Hospital Safety

Male Speaker: Time now for a Health for Life minute.

Female Speaker: Did you know about one patient in ten acquires an infection as a direct result of being hospitalized. Such complications include surgical wound infections in which bacteria can invade the surgical incision, urinary tract infections common in patients requiring the prolonged use of a urinary catheter. Pneumonia seen in debilitated patients or those who are on a respirator and bacterinia, a blood stream infection often contracted from an infected IV site. To control and eliminate many of these infections, hospital staff identifies patients at risk and educates personal on the importance of hand washing, checking IV sites, from moving urinary catheters as soon as possible. mobilizing patients quickly and using the proper sterilization and disinfecting procedures.


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